Navy arms unmanned attack drone boats with weapons, guns and missiles

The U.S. Navy is beginning to arm surface drone boats with guns, rockets and mobile missiles to overwhelm enemies with swarming attacks, protect sailors at farther stand-off ranges and coordinate maritime strikes across dispersed areas of ocean.

The concept is to call upon newer levels of autonomy enabling weapons systems to search for enemies, track their movements and then target them – all while humans perform command and control at safer ranges.

“We will be incorporating direct and indirect fire. We will be participating in a force protection exercise for the US Navy,” Wayne Prender, Senior Vice President of Applied Technology and Advanced Programs, Textron Systems, told Warrior Maven in an interview.

The testing and demonstrations are evolving through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between Textron and the Navy, intended to explore, prototype and ultimately deploy the armed Unmanned Surface Vehicles.

Arming USVs fits within the scope of broader Navy strategies focused on leveraging the latest advances in autonomy and artificial intelligence.

“We want to be able to adapt and upgrade platforms to integrate technology as it develops. This prevents getting the sensors, payloads and platforms too intertwined so that when we do make breakthroughs in machine learning and AI, we will be able to incorporate them into a while portfolio of platforms and systems,” Capt. Pete Small, Program Executive Officer, said at the Surface Naval Association.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-arms-unmanned-attack-drone-boats-with-weapons-guns-and-missiles

Trump said he wants to stay in Iraq to 'watch Iran.' Iraq isn't happy.

President Trump revealed on CBS Sunday he wants to keep a U.S. military presence in Iraq to "watch Iran" — and apparently he didn't bother to mention this to Iraq first.

"The [U.S.] troops … in Iraq are operating based on the agreement between the government of Iraq and the United States for the specific mission of combating terrorism," Iraqi President Barham Salih said Monday. "Iraq's constitution does not allow our territory of our country to be used against our neighbors."

"Don't overburden Iraq with your own issues," Salih added. "The U.S. is a major power … but do not pursue your own policy priorities. We live here. … Iran is our neighbor … We don't want to be part of any axis."

https://theweek.com/speedreads/821611/trump-said-wants-stay-iraq-watch-iran-iraq-isnt-happy

Vermont Abortion Bill Goes Even Further Than New York, Virginia

A Vermont bill supporting abortion is being attacked as “the most radical abortion legalization statute in the world.”

A bill introduced with the support of 90 out of Vermont’s 150 House lawmakers asserts that “every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or to have an abortion,” US News reported.

As noted by the Catholic News Agency, the bill says that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus shall not have independent rights under Vermont law.”

“It’s important to codify what is currently allowed in Vermont,” said Democratic Rep. Ann Pugh, one of the bill’s sponsors.

My understanding is that the majority of Vermonters support what is current practice in Vermont. And what this law does is to codify, or put in statute, what is current practice,” she said, according to Vermont Digger. “If we need to make changes, that is what the legislative process is about.”

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Gov. Phil Scott, who supports abortion, said that the bill might not be in its final form.

The legislation has “a long way to go to get through the Legislature, so we’ll see where it all comes out,” he said.

https://www.westernjournal.com/vermont-abortion-bill-goes-even-new-york-virginia/

Border wall materials headed south to Texas border for February construction

Galveston-based company awarded over $300 million to build a levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley

WESLACO, Texas — Heavy materials to build a levee border wall will be making it south to the Texas border as early as Monday.

The project stems from a contract U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded to Galveston-based SLS Construction to build sections of a border wall in the Rio Grande Valley.

The contracts were announced in late 2018 for a combined $312 million to build a total of 14 miles of levee wall in Hidalgo County.

The money for the project was appropriated by Congress in Fiscal Year 2018.

The levee wall is expected to resemble the existing wall in the area, which is topped with 18-foot steel bollards.

CBP said the equipment will be utilized for construction on federally owned land.

The project is on schedule to begin construction this month.

https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/border-wall-materials-headed-south-to-texas-border-for-february-construction/504-d1fa079b-d765-4164-aeb5-7a4f4a5fef4c

Video of Cali plane crash - 5 dead, 3 injured

https://nyp.st/2G707Yh

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